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anaes WEE AJ " December 29, 1928 WINNETKA TALK 27 Evanston Hospitals Treat 12,290 Patients in 1928; Sets Record Evanston's hospitals, St. Francis and Evanston, experienced the greatest de- mands in their history during the past year when a total of 12,290 patients from this city, towns to the north and west and even part of Chicago, visited them for treatment. This volume of business, which is expected to increase each year, because of the growth of the community served, has taxed the capacity of St. Francis hospital so that building opera- tions for new quarters have alread: been started, and has used the facilities of the Evanston hospital to such full extent that plans for adding more rooms are being started. Excavation for the St. Francis wing was started in September and work is going ahead on the project which will increase the capacity of the institution by 50 percent. To Add 100 Beds It will be installed with 100 more beds, increasing the hospital total to 300, and will be erected at an estimated cost of $500,000. Included will be a children's ward, three smaller wards and moderately priced single rooms. Rearrangement and increase in size of the kitchen, baking and refrig- erating equipment at the Evanston hos- pital, a $30,000 project, was started a month ago as the first step in meeting the demand for more rooms. Details of a $600,000 home for the nurses are now being discussed and the construc- tion will start during the next year. The total of 12,290 patients for the year will be increased by about 50 by Jan. 1, since the report from St. Francis hospital carried only up to Dec. 21. This is an increase of about 370 over 1927. Up to Dec. 21 St. Francis had served 5,660 patients, which already is a growth over the number for the full year of 1927 in which 5,567 visited the hospital for treatment. The maternity ward, which has experienced a rapid increase in number of cases since its establishment in 1918, has served 821 cases. March was the peak month when 93 babies were born and in June there were 84. The lowest month was January with 46. Training Course Grows The nurses training course has shown a steady growth and now has 75 students compared with 55 of a year ago. One of the outstanding fea- tures has been extension courses given by Loyola university. Another class will be admitted Monday, Jan. 14, Patients for the year at the Evans- ton hospital numbered 6,630 according to the annual report of W. W. Buchanan, president of the board. These required a total of 69,595 days care, and the average number of day's stay per patient was eleven. This con- trasts with the average stay of thir- teen days per patient the year before, and is regarded as an accomplishment of increase in speed and efficiency of the personnel of each department. There were 646 free patients, 3,479 part pay and 2,505 pay patients. In the obstetrical department there were 896 births, a new high record for the institution. These, with those of St. Francis hospital, make a total of 1,717 children born in Evanston. Robert S. Arnold, son of Mr, and Mrs. Joseph K. Arnold, 430 Essex road, Kenilworth, returned last week for the Christmas holidays from University of Pennsylvania, where he is studying architecture. Cy Dr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Brown, 722 Prospect avenue, are spending the holi- days at the Lake Placid club in New York. Sociologists Meeting Mr. and Mrs. Louis H. Withey, II More than seven hundred American | mother, Mrs. William B. Clore, 654 la € sociologists and educators are meeting | Cherry street. | road. Miss Alice McKeown has been home . . . of Grand Rapids, Mich. spent Christ- | from college in the east to spend her m Chicago This Week mas and a few days with Mrs. Withey's | vacation with her parents Mr. and Mrs. . McKeown of 935 South Private in Chicago this week from December rr 26 to 29 for the twenty-third annual session of the American Sociological society. The majority of meetings are being held at the Hotel Congress, and are directed by Dr. John M. Gillette, president of the society and professor of sociology at the university of North Dakota. Dr. John Landesco, of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, discussed "Prohibi- Egg Nog tion and Gangsters, a Chicago Com- munity Study," at a dinner Wednes- day, December 26. Karl Borders, of the Chicago Commons, was to speak on Russian village life, and E. R. Mowrer, sociologist at Northwestern university, was scheduled for a talk on family discord. - between twe Layers of French Vanilla For Rosy, Robust Health Milk, the milk that ns, the drink Bowman's is rich in the pre bone and body-building make you sturdy and strong. cious vitami elements that Company Milk 1s rich and pure. Constantly Bowman-trained inspec- 11 its natural Bowman Dairy sweet, guarded by tors, it reach its fresh, d. Order with it! superior flavor goodness, a bottle today unimpaire You'll be delighted OWMAN DAIRY COMPANY MILK _ "nn